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VERSE: Gn24-21a

=========== The Hebrew root SHIN AYIN HEY means HOLOCAST ========

BACKGROUND
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Gn24-21 is a peach of a verse. Anyone who wants to really know
the issues of Biblical study should read this Rashi.

On Gn24-21 Rashi takes an innocent phrase --
AND THE MAN WAS ASTONISHED ABOUT HER -- & does a 4 dimensional
analysis. Rashi analyzes the verse from the points of
- MEANING of the root
- IDIOMATIC usage of this meaning
- GRAMMATICAL form of the root
- use of the CONNECTIVE, to

THE TEXT
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Gn24-21 and the man was ASTONISHED ABOUT this woman

THE RASHIS
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* The MEANING of the ROOT Shin-Ayin-Hey is DESOLATION
* The IDIOMATIC USAGE of DESOLATION is ASTONISHED!
* The GRAMMATICAL FORM of this root is the rare HITPAEL+SILIBANT
* The CONNECTIVE TO can also mean ABOUT or CONCERNING

THE LISTS
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So Rashi is Simple. He provides 4 lists. A list for MEANING,
a list for IDIOM, a list for FORM and a list for CONNECTIVES

Below is a list of verses showing that the Hebrew root
Shin-Aleph-Hey means either HOLOCAST or ROAR of WAVES. Many
of the examples comes from Rashi himself. Others come from
RADACK.
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VERSE    TEXT OF VERSE WHERE S-A-H means HOLOCAST or ROAR
======== =======================================================
Is24-12  HOLOCASTS attack their gates
Ps35-17  Save me from their HOLOCAST
Pr01-27  When your fears come like a HOLOCAST
Is06-11  Until cities are HOLOCASTED from residents
Is17-12  The attack of the nations is like the ROAR of WAVES*1

NOTES
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*1 The idea of comparing a HOLOCAST to a TUMULTUOUS ROAR of
   waves (eg an explosion) should be clear
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=============== TO DESOLATE can mean TO BE ASTONISHED ==========

This continues the list above which dealt with the MEANING of
the root Shin-Ayin-Hey. We showed this root meant HOLOCAST.

In this list we show that Hebrew idiom expresses the concept
of ASTONISHMENT by using words meaning DESOLATION.

Hence the word MISTAEH in Gn24-21 from the root SHIN-AYIN-HEY
means ASTONISHED
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ROOT   VERSE1   MEANING1       VERSE2   MEANING2
====== =======  ==========     =======  =======================
S-M-M  Is59-16  ASTONISHED     Lv26-22  DESOLATE
S-A-H  Gn24-21  ASTONISHED     Is06-11  HOLOCASTED
B-H-L  1S18-21  ASTONISHED     Lv26-16  SWIFTLY/HURRIED
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